Strategic Social Media is the first textbook to go beyond the marketing plans and how-to guides, and provide an overview of the theories, action plans, and case studies necessary for teaching students and readers about utilizing social media to meet marketing goals. Explores the best marketing practices for reaching business goals, while also providing strategies that students/readers can apply to any past, present or future social media platform Provides comprehensive treatment of social media in five distinct sections: landscape, messages, marketing and business models, social change, and the future Emphasizes social responsibility and ethics, and how this relates to capitalizing on market share Highlights marketing strategies grounded in research that explains how practitioners can influence audience behaviour Each chapter introduces theory, practice, action plans, and case studies to teach students the power and positive possibilities that social media hold
The Fyre Festival is a perfect example of this where social media influencers were used to sell tick- ets to an event concept rather than the true reality of what was delivered (Richardson, 2017). 5 Posting factually incorrect ...
Emphasize embracing messages, not hard-sell messaging. The point of social media is to be social, not to bombard people with paid ads trying to make a quick sell. Social media is about building relationships that could ultimately turn ...
Offering world-class guidance on achieving an entirely different result from your marketing efforts, this book reveals: Lessons learned by real firms embarking in social media What it takes to succeed with each medium Which of today's tools ...
This experiment focused on 689,000 users and whether or not people were feeling positive or negative about what they were viewing on their timeline (Booth, 2014). In essence, Facebook was able to manipulate and filter information, ...
Anyone who wants to enhance the user experience must read this book.
With a focus on what makes social media unique among communication platforms, this book offers practical guidance on creating, implementing, and evaluating social media strategies and tactics.
These platform-specific tactics, along with all the proceeding material in the book, are brought together in the final chapter to create a comprehensive social media marketing plan, with detailed explanations and illustrations from a real ...
This practical guide allows any business, big or small, to create and maintain its own social media strategy—no more paying agencies or hiring expensive consultants.
Strategic Social Media Marketing
What is Social Media Marketing? Social media marketing refers back to the technique of gaining visitors or interest thru social media sites.